Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1912-09-15 | Page 1 | Collision in Air Results Fatally

r lUSION IN AIR FATALLY a Howard W W. 1 Gill Meets f l L Death When Flying 1 a at t Chica Chicago t ACE r STARTED IN DARK Wo VO Machines Crash at Height g t y of S Seventy five f Ive Feet and Fall t to o Ground i AGO Sept H Aviator H. Aviator Howard W W. f. f Gill of ot Baltimore was fatally t St On n the Cicero aviation field too tot to- to o t t. George of France Francc Ose monoplane collided with Gills Gill's lane an when they were participating L race seventy feet In the air Picked up unconscious but later and his condition lUon was found a J. J be not serious Gill died an hour let ter in j accident t. t t the hospital was able ablo to T. T was going at top speed in t mono monoplane p la no to win vin the twelve mile rL he said when looking behind w a Gill J ii In his Wright biplane turna turnaround turn turn- around a pylon and rapidly ly ap- ap Ch Aim elevator me a few feet teet boJo below I Jerked thinking to give gl him him n plo pie space to clear m m m- beneath ben Ath th From m cockpit O Of i ny rny n 1 monoplane I j e w waa waaia as e to get e el view s ia a of just lust what wha t vin happening B but hut U it seems accrue that tho t GUI Gill vIne s ahead h Cad hit m my Il Ill l i had t t. t Just a a. premonition of or an acct acc oro ho he on entered his ma ma- U Q and ana started he called to a friend Continued d on Page Pae 1 column 3 3 COLLISION IN AIR RESULTS fATALLY Aviator Howard W W. Gill Meets I Death When Flying at Chicago Continued From Page I 1 to throw him a heavy oil coat which tho the man was bearing Im liable to bring back some blood on this said Gill with a laugh as ho he slipped it on The rhe friend Joking remarked Gill Is as safe in Ia those machines as J if in a bus on the ground To which Gill replied When you Oll go So up you can never tell what shape you will be In when you ou come down Ten minutes later Gills Gill's mangled body lay beneath the wreckage of ot a machine Gill was a wealthy young sportsman Last February at Los Angeles ho he suffered suf sur- bred an accident similar to the thc one today loday falling Calling seventy-five seventy feet I Darkness was was' said to be bo primarily the of or tho the accident Paul Peck on the same famo field the other day daj met methis methis methis his death at Hj p. p m. m Today's accident accident acci acci- dent occurred at C G p p. p m m m. wh when n while there was vas light higher up it was al almost almost almost al- al most dark near the ground said just before the tho monoplane mono- mono piano plane race was to start he protested to the tho officials of or the Aero Acro club of ot Illinois against racing In darkness but the start was called and he went upI upI up I r didn't want this race raco to start when It was right on the tlC verge of ot night said flight along tho the monoplane races havo have be boon been n put on the program so they thoy came at the tho end Yet when vh n the race was call called d ll I I. went I-went went up with Anthony Jannus as a competitor com corn peU tor I. I was going about a 1 mile mUe in two minutes and had gone only twice around the courso course when his monoplane and Gills Gill's biplane came camo to the earth arth together Time keepers at the thc pylons nearest the spot declared l 1 was In the lead ead and Gill coming up faster from behind at the turn tried to pass beneath The two machines crashed tho the wings became entangled an and both came to the te ground